Outdoor NC
These three areas of focus guide Outdoor NC’s approach to balancing tourism, communities and natural resources.
What are destination stewardship, responsible travel and sustainable tourism?
North Carolina does not tax this federal retirement benefit, one of the advantages highlighted by Retire NC.
What are Social Security retirement benefits?
I’m known for waterfalls, mountain biking and a river that is considered one of the oldest in the world. More than half of my county is public land.
What is the Brevard Area?
In 2025, visitors spent approximately this much across North Carolina’s 100 counties.
Answers within $250 million will be accepted.
What is $37.2 billion?
This famous baseball player both acquired his famous nickname and hit his first professional home run while in Fayetteville in 1914.
Who is Babe Ruth?
At 1,705 feet, this peak offers the highest point in Gaston County and is highlighted as a fall foliage destination in Outdoor NC’s recent fall content.
What is Kings Pinnacle?
North Carolina’s Certified Retirement Community program was first established by legislation in this year, a decade before revisions were made to enhance and continue the program.
What is 2008?
My trail experiences include a Night Sky Trail, a sculpture trail and a botanical garden, along with several well-known waterfalls.
What is the Highlands Area?
This many North Carolina counties surpassed $1 billion in visitor spending in 2025.
What is 9 counties?
Nicknamed “Lady Edison,” this Raleigh-born inventor received 49 patents and is credited with more than 100 inventions.
(Source: DNCR)
Who is Beulah Louise Henry?
Outdoor NC is preparing to host its ___ annual Guide Summit this spring, adding to a network of ___ guides who have participated in past summits.
For the guide total, answers within 3 will be accepted.
What are the fourth Guide Summit and 19 guides?
This Certified Retirement Community is also an official Coast Guard City and is home to the largest Coast Guard base on the East Coast.
What is Elizabeth City?
My trails include one dedicated to pottery and another to digital murals. Visitors can also explore rare longleaf pine habitat where they might encounter red-cockaded woodpeckers and Sandhills pyxie-moss.
What is the Southern Pines Area / Moore County?
In 2025, visitor spending increased in this many of North Carolina’s 100 counties.
Answers will be accepted within 2.
What is 59 counties?
Lexington barbecue aficionados can order their pork chopped, sliced, or using this term for larger, irregular pieces that often include more outside brown.
(Source: VisitNC.com)
What is coarse/coarsely chopped?
This 20.4-mile stretch of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail takes hikers through what Outdoor NC highlighted as the only true coastal forest in the Eastern U.S.
What is the Neusiok Trail?
Before applying to become a Certified Retirement Community, a destination must establish this local group dedicated specifically to attracting and supporting retirees.
What is a retiree attraction committee?
My trail network includes a route called the Mineral City Mile, paddling opportunities on the Toe River and a trail following the route taken by patriot militia during the Revolutionary War.
What is the Bakersville Area / Mitchell County?
According to Visit NC’s 2025 tourism research, visitor spending saves the average North Carolina household approximately this much per year in state and local taxes.
Answers within $25 will be accepted.
What is $605?
This now-famous command used by frustrated computer users everywhere was invented in Research Triangle Park in 1981.
What is Ctrl-Alt-Delete?
This 80-foot lookout tower in Alamance County gives visitors a bird’s-eye view of Piedmont fall color.
What is the Monadnock Lookout Tower?
This Certified Retirement Community is home to a historic courthouse dating to 1767 and was the site of a 1774 protest in which 51 women signed a resolution against British goods.
What is Edenton?
You can spend the night on wooden camping platforms deep in my wetlands, including one called Barred Owl Roost. My designated Trail Town area actually encompasses five different river communities.
What is the Roanoke River Area?
North Carolina visitors spent more than this amount per day in 2025.
Answers within $5 million will be accepted.
What is $101 million per day?
This tagline appeared on the Catching Fire movie poster that hung in Visit NC’s old office.
What is “The World Will Be Watching”?